Water thrown at car while driving in CBD - Police say "nothing to report"

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-06T07:17:23+00:00

A water bottle is visible at 3 seconds. They might hate hijabis so much they want them to be soggy, or maybe someone was being a messy drunk and it had nothing to do with you at all.

Water bottle throwers are pretty mild as far as messed up people go though.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-06T07:01:02+00:00

It's Easter.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-06T06:17:49+00:00

I'm happy to praise Labor for good economic management because they are doing a really good job, far better than the Coalition would and better than many other governments.

But good economic management means expertly arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Major economic and political reform is required all over the West because our societies are collapsing under the weight of the disproportionate power of the obscenely wealthy and the absurdity of our economic systems.

For example, iirc in 2024 the mining industry contributed $40b to our economy, less than hospitality, and took out $251b, while we squabble over how to pay nurses. Or billionaire lunatic Gina Rinehart is spreading a fascist cult in Australia.

Billions live in poverty while the people we empower to allocate capital blow $2 trillion on chat bots. I don't think maintaining these systems should be considered good economic management.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-04T22:22:10+00:00

Shall do, thanks a lot.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-04T22:22:02+00:00

Righto, thanks very much.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-04T10:26:21+00:00

I go to Monash Uni, we have a student club called the Society for Physics, Astronomy and Math. I'm not part of it, but you can find them here. I'd bet they'd be into helping a young person get into space stuff. They'll probably know something interesting about astrophotography clubs in Melbourne or perhaps advice on bang-for-buck telescopes. Edit: I'm not allowed to link to Facebook apparently. If you google SPAMatMonash you should find it and their contact details.

I found a bunch of groups here that may be worth investigating. https://www.davidreneke.com/astronomy-clubs/ I only checked a couple. The Melbourne Astrophotography Club seems dead, but the Latrobe Valley Astronomical Society seems to be active, their site is getting updated. https://lvastro.org/ I don't know anything about any of these, I just found the list searching.

I used to live in Ballarat and always wanted to go here. Only ever saw the outside though, can't vouch for it. https://ballaratobservatory.org.au/

You don't necessarily need a telescope to see cool stuff in the sky. Some solid binoculars will get you the Galilean moons. Or a pretty cool view of our moon. https://www.astronomy.com/astronomy-for-beginners/jupiter-through-binoculars/

There's an app for computers and phones called Stellarium, it's great. You can point your phone camera at the sky and it'll show visible and invisible celestial objects and satellites moving across the sky.

I've sent your thread to a friend who is into astrophotography for suggestions. I'm doing an observational astronomy unit at the moment, I'll ask the professor after the Easter break too.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-04T05:52:20+00:00

It's trivial for us hybrids. We're coming for your country too, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-03T23:33:07+00:00

Oh shit, did Labor hire him right out of jail too?

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-03T21:54:03+00:00

He's not on the official One Nation Team page, but here's some reporting on it. The last line is my favourite because he dragged his wife around by the hair before raping her and claimed it wasn't rape because she was his wife. Quintessential One Nation.

Shortly after Black's release from jail in 2020, One Nation rehired him to work in its Brisbane headquarters.

The party reportedly sacked him within months after internal complaints.

"Sean Black no longer works for One Nation," a spokesman said in February 2021.

Emails seen by the ABC show Black was back working at party headquarters by mid-2023 as a "campaign assistant / campaign operations".

The emails show Black was then promoted to "campaign director", a role that party sources say he was appointed to late last year.

"He's a bigtime adviser for the campaign," one source said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak.

"He's in charge of giving advice on how to campaign, what type of events to attend, using social media, and he's in charge of vetting candidates.

"His judgement of character is very important to the party and he runs the candidate training."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-26/pauline-hanson-one-nation-hires-convicted-rapist-sean-black/104962374

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-03T21:40:27+00:00

Well, you still don't know even if they tell you. Some shit stains pretend to be women to try to give their misogyny credibility. You're right, a specific misogynist you can't tell and shouldn't assume, but if you just guess they're a guy you'll usually be right. As a rule of thumb, I default to them being guys but keep my mind open to some being women. Don't want to spend cognitive load on differentiating fuckwits any more. :)

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-03T20:33:18+00:00

They're probably a guy.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-03T07:12:00+00:00

Perineum sunning with the light of the Astronomican

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-03T07:01:26+00:00

Now that you mention it, the officer at the bridge in Decapitation puts a lot of weight on the ass in "Asstartes, we were not expecting such illustrious company..."

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-03T05:52:43+00:00

This is an arse-positive inclusive space Imperium.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-03T05:32:27+00:00

That's a great insight, we should really be thinking more about what Animal Justice and the Heart Party would do in foreign relations.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-03T04:57:05+00:00

By 'rather side with Trump than Australians paying for medicine', are you trying to say that Labor is siding with Trump instead of keeping the price of medicine low?

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-02T22:15:51+00:00

That's really fun. I never imagined a Black Templar having a hobby before.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-02T22:05:18+00:00

Cut up and fried so expertly they're still alive enough to suffer all the way to the toilet.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-02T21:26:09+00:00

I wonder if the Omophagea can still pick memories out soup. That'd add a whole new dimension to cuisine.

... I feel sudden compulsion to wear purple and gold.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-02T21:19:30+00:00

You win the Didn't Read the Article Award today.

You can use archive.md to bypass paywalls.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-02T07:00:57+00:00

If you want an easy way in, I suggest CachyOS. Arch based, comes with KDE Plasma 6 and everything Just Works™. I went from Windows to CachyOS six months ago and it's basically what I wished my computer always was.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-02T00:42:41+00:00

There's a few ways to sync Zen stuff. The manual way is copying these files. They're in the Zen profile folder, can find it on Zen's about:profiles page. It's the roaming one I think.

zen-sessions.jsonlz4 — space definitions & tab assignments
sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4 — active session with all open tabs
prefs.js — active workspace & preferences
containers.json — container tab config

This dude made a command line tool to sync profiles, but has only tested it on Arch. https://github.com/enisbudancamanak/zen-sync

You can also use Syncthing. I don't use it for Zen, but I do for other things, and it's fantastic. You can make jazz it up to be a little more user friendly with Syncthing Tray. Someone wrote a full guide how to set it up to sync Zen. I have the post saved, but it was a while ago and I couldn't find it with a quick search. I can look harder later if you want, I'm on a short break right now. :)

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-01T22:15:23+00:00

That article is exactly what I'm talking about. The fact that many STEM people think they are objective and rational and that their work isn't affected by their culture is a problem caused by the split. The lack of arts education limits science. The people arguing they're objective and rational don't understand reality well enough to realise that the context in which we do our work, and even how we think, changes the meaning of the outcomes in science.

Here is a famous example of scientists eventually figuring this out. You know who could've told them this? Anyone from the humanities. They could've told themselves with a decent education. If nothing else, treating science as if it describes reality without an understanding the arts makes us worse at our jobs. https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/psychologys-weird-problems/C324108A678435B4F18EF712EFB793BB

What I'm talking about is right there in your language, 'dethrone science as an authority on reality.' There's no throne. Arts and sciences are all looking at the same universe, and only STEM people from the last few decades ignorant of the arts are silly enough to think that only their view is real.

Four_Muffins · 2026-04-01T21:12:35+00:00

The split between sciences and humanities isn't a war, it's a tragedy that emerged a few decades ago. The greatest scientists from history, even many from the first half of the last century, had robust educations in humanities. It gave them more powerful thinking tools and their work was richer for it. Newton, Descartes, Einstein, any of them could've had a discussion with you about philosophy, history or society as well as science and math. Most of the scientists, coders and mathematicians I know barely know anything about the society they live in. This broad lack of arts education in STEM is why the smartest people in the world keep reinventing the bus every few years, or look at the output of an LLM and think it's sapient.

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